Deck 12: War, Diplomacy, and the Beginning of International Relations

Question 1

Which is an example of state terrorism?

A)9/11
B)Pearl Harbor
C)The fall of the Soviet Union
D)The Holocaust
E)KKK lynchings

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What kind of terrorist organization is the Ku Klux Klan?

A)Transnational
B)International
C)State
D)Domestic
E)Disorganized

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What separates a terrorist from a common criminal?

A)Terrorists are always motivated by monetary gain.
B)Terrorists are always motivated by ideology.
C)Terrorists are always supported by states.
D)Terrorists are always supported by foreign states.
E)Terrorists are always motivated by revenge.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Who are the targets of state terrorism?

A)People living within the borders of a state
B)People living in one country outside the borders of a state
C)People living in multiple countries outside the borders of a state
D)Institutions and organizations of countries outside the borders of a state
E)Institutions and organizations of countries inside and outside the borders of a state

Question 5

From an optimistic, neoliberal perspective, what is an inevitable result of globalization?

A)Increased personal freedom
B)Decreased personal freedom
C)Increased poverty
D)Increased tyranny
E)Decreased economic growth

Question 6

Which is a country that has benefited greatly from globalization through the expansion of its middle class?

A)Argentina
B)Japan
C)Germany
D)Canada
E)India

Question 7

What kind of terrorist organization is al-Qaeda?

A)Transnational
B)International
C)State
D)Domestic
E)Disorganized

Question 8

What concept, central to understanding international relations, was called in question by the fall of the Soviet Union?

A)The primacy of the state
B)The importance of supranational organizations
C)The viability of the United Nations
D)The nature of collective security
E)The primacy of ideology

Question 9

What has been the most common form of terrorism throughout history?

A)Transnational terrorism
B)International terrorism
C)State terrorism
D)Domestic terrorism
E)Low-level terrorism

Question 10

What is an underlying goal of most NGOs?

A)Collective national security
B)Individual national security
C)Promotion of a global civil society
D)Intelligence collection
E)Commercial and economic inroads

Question 11

What is the name of the theory that if one country falls to communism, others will as a result?

A)Power school theory
B)Collective security theory
C)Neoliberal theory
D)Domino theory
E)Deterrence theory

Question 12

What factors are added to analysis of international relations by pluralist-interdependence theory?

A)Drug trafficking and political corruption
B)Private armies and war for profit
C)Terrorism and organized crime
D)Supranational organizations and nationalism
E)Nonstate actors and globalization

Question 13

What is the most important defining characteristic of multinational corporations?

A)They can overrule the regulations and laws of supranational organizations.
B)They have the ability to ignore the laws of any state.
C)They have the power to buy and sell governments and regimes.
D)They have the resources to buy and sell to and from any location in the world.
E)They have no loyalty to any single state or nation in the world.

Question 14

What theory of international relations is most closely connected with globalization?

A)Conservatism
B)Neoliberalism
C)Socialism
D)Neo-Marxism
E)Libertarianism

Question 15

How does deterrence prevent a rival from attacking the country that deters it?

A)By appeasing the rival with rewards for not attacking
B)By frightening the rival with the consequences of attacking
C)By preemptively attacking the rival and eliminating its means of attacking
D)By surrounding the rival with hostile alliances that must be attacked first
E)By undermining the rival by sponsoring dissent that weakens its ability to attack

Question 16

What is an example of a nongovernmental organization?

A)McDonald's
B)United Nations
C)Doctors Without Borders
D)European Union
E)NATO

Question 17

How has the pace of international relationships changed with globalization?

A)It has changed in some cases but not all.
B)It has not changed at all.
C)It has not changed very much.
D)It has gotten slower.
E)It has grown faster.

Question 18

What is the essential goal of most nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)?

A)Religious conversion
B)Support for multinational corporations
C)Support for terrorism
D)Subversion of existing states
E)Betterment of the human condition

Question 19

In what country was the Truman Doctrine and the policy of containment first applied by the United States?

A)Germany
B)Japan
C)Greece
D)Yugoslavia
E)Cuba

Question 20

What is an essential tenet of neoliberalism?

A)Government must provide central planning to the economy.
B)Government must provide a strong guiding hand in the economy.
C)Government must interfere as little as possible in the economy.
D)Government must not intervene at any time in the economy.
E)Government must recognize that it is powerless overall in the economy.

Question 21

Examine states and nonstate actors in the world today. Which has the greater advantages over the other, and why?

Question 22

Which is part of a popular backlash against globalization?

A)The collapse of the United Nations' legitimacy and support
B)The election of populists in the United States, Europe, and Latin America
C)The election of Justin Trudeau in Canada
D)The election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela
E)The Yugoslav civil war

Question 23

What is a common requirement of IMF loans to developing states?

A)Funds must be spent only on employee salaries.
B)Funds must be spent only on educational projects.
C)Funds must be spent only on social services.
D)Funds must be spent only on defense and security.
E)Funds must be spent only on infrastructure projects.

Question 24

How have requirements set by the IMF and World Bank for loans harmed countries that they were intended to help?

Question 25

What was the initial concern of the Bretton Woods system?

A)Economic growth in the developing world
B)Rebuilding war-ravaged Europe and preventing another global financial depression
C)Encouraging decolonialization
D)Preserving Europe's overseas empires
E)Ensuring American economic power

Question 26

Where did the United States and its Allies meet in 1944 to plan for the post-World War II international economic system?

A)Turtle Bay
B)Bretton Woods
C)Bletchley Park
D)Falls Church
E)Warm Springs

Question 27

How has globalization helped empower al-Qaeda, and how has al-Qaeda taken advantage of opportunities offered by it?

Question 28

What criticisms were lodged at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank for their requirements on states receiving loans?

A)They are authoritarian and unrealistic.
B)They are without financial controls and safeguards.
C)They are overly generous and in favor of overly ambitious projects.
D)They are authoritarian and unaccountable.
E)They are too easy to get and too hard to repay.

Question 29

What is a means for the United States to strengthen its prosperity and place in a changing world?

A)Ignore rising economic powers in the certainty that their growth will fade and so will their power.
B)Engage rising economic powers and encourage them to impede trade and develop strong security apparatus.
C)Engage rising economic powers and encourage them to develop trade, grow the middle class, and support democratic freedom.
D)Not engage rising economic powers because in the long run they have little or nothing to offer the United States.
E)Not engage economic powers because these are international upstarts, whose success ultimately imperils the United States.

Question 30

Which is an example of state power reasserting itself in recent times?

A)Reassertion of European colonialism
B)Chinese inroads into African countries
C)Catalonian agitation for independence from Spain
D)Scandals involving UN peacekeepers
E)British military budget cuts